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These are links to some of the E-commerce sites and services we have talked about at past meetings.
- Free File Alliance Companies This IRS site allows you to select a free on-line tax preparation and e-filing service. Offerings from all the major tax-software vendors.
- PBGC (Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation) Pension Search Although the Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation has been successful in reuniting many people with their pensions, the people listed in their Pension Search Directory have not been located yet.
- Uklug This job search engine checks 15 international job databases. Once you do a search you can then use its RSS function to keep you updated on job offerings as they are posted.
- FreshPatents.com the latest published US patent applications each week BEFORE the USPTO decision to grant/deny. FREE innovative services like keyword monitoring, RSS feeds and browse by location.
- Yahoo! - the thinking corporate's email solutionYahoo! provides email at less than $1 per month per user. And Yahoo! business email carries no advertisements, or Yahoo! branding - instead it aligns to a corporate domain. In fact, for a small business, Yahoo even include a free domain registration. Pay a few cents more, and Yahoo! will host your business website, and provide you with simple tools to build it.
- Vstore Have a free affiliated store on your web site.
- 000Domains You can register your own domain names with .com, .net or .org extentions for only $13.50 per year.
- DXSHOP We invite you to build a real store with up to 12 products in the catalog without ever paying for DXSHOP.
- PBGC (Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation) Pension Search Although the Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation has been successful in reuniting many people with their pensions, the people listed in their Pension Search Directory have not been located yet.
- QuickBase
is a new the Web-based database from Intuit, that allows you to
easily setup and use databases that are available to anyone with web access.
The free starter plan allows you to have up to 3 databases with a 3 MB
storage limit. The site also has several templates and ideas on how to use
an online database. The below link is a ZDnet review of Quickbase.
- Internet Advertising Resource Guide
- Yahoo Store The fastest, easiest way to open an online store. Create your e-biz site on the Yahoo server, using nothing more than your browser. A free 10 day trial period.
- Hyperoffice Our online workplace combines the security of a hosted intranet with the power of online collaboration tools to save money and increase productivity.
- Internet Advertising Resource Guide
- Federal Trade Commissions Privacy Site.
This site tells you how Credit Bureaus, Departments of Motor Vehicles and Direct Marketers can legally use the personal informaton you provide them. It also tells you how to opt out of the information sharing.
- WorldWideWeb Tax Over 1500 pages of tax information including IRS forms, IRS instructions, IRS publications, IRS tables, IRS rate schedules, IRS charts, IRS worksheets, and answers to practically every IRS and tax question imaginable in their Master Index of IRS topics. It also has a State Tax Master Reference with a "Your state At-a-Glance" reference pages.
- The Federal Supply Service sells a wide variety of personal property no longer needed by the Federal Government through sealed bids, auctions, silent auctions, and first-come, first-served fixed price sales.
- Ework Exchange is a site where the best business projects and the most qualified freelance professionals can meet and and help each other.
- Free Business E-books
- Web Business 101 An introduction to opening your own business on the web. http://portablelife.com/tips/story/0,1091,2108,00.html http://pcusers.org/pcebiz.html#articles Microsoft Office has a lot of free under promoted add-ons that you can download to enhance your business operations.
- The ComputerConsultant.com
RentaGeek.com
For those of you who are in the freelance computer consulting business, Jack recommends these two sites that will give you a free page to promote yourself. Both have geographic search engines on their site- ASP Resource Index ASP Resource Index, a complete and comprehensive ASP resource. It has : ASP code editors, applications, chat rooms, links to related sites, browser and server utilities, tutorials, etc.
- SCORE: (Service Corps of Retired Executives) SCORE’s free, online business counseling from business management experts can help you start off on the right track or solve a business question regarding expanding or selling your business.
- Bankrate.com's Small Business Finance page site specializes in articles and resources on financing, cashflow, taxes etc.
- IBM's Intellectual Property Network IBM's Intellectual Property Network. A searchable database for information on all patents.
- ECOMMERCE WEBOPEDIA Your source for the most up-to-date terms, definitions, and acronyms in electronic commerce.
- U.S. Trademark Electronic Search System (TESS)
- WorldWideWeb Tax Over 1500 pages of tax information including IRS forms, IRS instructions, IRS publications, IRS tables, IRS rate schedules, IRS charts, IRS worksheets, and answers to practically every IRS and tax question imaginable in their Master Index of IRS topics. It also has a State Tax Master Reference with a "Your state At-a-Glance" reference pages.
- Tax Software Review 2005
- Secret History of the Credit Card The entire Frontline program on line in video with a discussion and interview links.
- So, You Want An E-commerce Site - Part 1
- E-commerce Site - Part 2, Shopping Carts And Databases
- Unleashing the Ideavirus In Seth Godin's new book he talks about how ideas start and how they spread --- how they become ideaviruses. It's about how trends, products --- and yes, book buzz --- get started and proliferate
- E-Mail Etiquette The proper way to use e-mail for business.
- Viruses and Hackers Costing Businesses Big Bucks. Viruses and Hackers Costing Businesses Big Bucks. Viruses and computer hackers will cost businesses around the world more than $1.5 trillion in the year 2000
- The Web Marketing Checklist 27 Ways to Promote Your Site
- A High-Tech Honcho Who Says No to Hypergrowth For Lurita Doan, life and business got a lot better after she constrained her company's expansion.
- The ASP Explosion: How to Avoid the Shrapnel An ASP (application service provider) is a company that will rent you software and deliver it online as you use it. Spread sheets, word processors, databases, accounting programs, human resources applications.
- The Name Game The hows and whys of domain naming.
- Secret History of the Credit Card The entire Frontline program on line in video with a discussion and interview links.
- Doctor Ebiz takes real questions from real small business people and provides brief no-nonsense answers that help them learn how to succeed in the online world.
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Sabotage! Coping With The Joe Job A Joe Job is a very crude form of identity theft. Your email address is used as the "sender's address" in most cases, and your Website URL is advertised. It is e-mailed to millions of people. They become irate and their complaints could even lead to your ISP shutting you down. This article tells you what steps to take to respond effectively to a Joe job.
- The Poster Advisor is designed to help employers comply with the poster requirements of several laws administered by the Department of Labor (DOL). These laws require employers to display official DOL posters where employees can readily observe them. DOL provides the posters at no cost to employers.
- Avoiding Legal Trouble When Registering Domain Names
- FindLaw has a site where users can access nearly 8,000 forms from US federal and state courts for free.
- 10 Big Myths about copyright explained
- opyright and Intellectual Property A link site of articles at About.com
- Legality of 'Deep Linking' Remains Deeply Complicated
- The Poster Advisor is designed to help employers comply with the poster requirements of several laws administered by the Department of Labor (DOL). These laws require employers to display official DOL posters where employees can readily observe them. DOL provides the posters at no cost to employers.
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